Willamette University

Past Performance

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Edward Albee’s: The American Dream and the Sand Box

February 17 – 25, 2012

Director: Jonathan Cole

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  • Preview: Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.
  • Runs: Feb. 17–25
  • Evening performances: Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
  • Matinees: Feb. 19 and 25, 2 p.m.

The Sandbox introduces one of America’s most dysfunctional families. In this pioneering work, Albee manipulates clichés of language and social mores, breaking the fourth wall and purposefully destroying the audience’s illusion of passive observation of the action of the play.

The American Dream continues the story of The Sandbox’s mommy and daddy. It is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artificial for real values, a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to their complacent foundations. In it, Albee explores the hollowness of the American dream, as well as the fallacy of the ideal American family.

“Albee’s probing intellectual breadth and scalpel-edged elegance of language makes this a must see.”
—New York Times